The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently held a hearing on the ongoing management and safety failures of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), the largest transit provider in the Washington, D.C., region and the second-largest heavy-rail operator in the country. The hearing gave members of Congress, including all eight members of the House of Representatives who represent a jurisdiction served by WMATA, the opportunity to wonder aloud why the authority is not a safer, more financially sustainable mass transit system.
WAMU radio described the hearing:
Members of Congress grilled Metro leaders Wednesday over the transit agency’s untenable situation: more
